Laura Globig: PhD Student

 

Laura is a final year PhD student at the Affective Brain Lab. 

She holds a Bsc in Psychology and an MSc in Social Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology from the University of Berne, Switzerland.

Her research examines the neural and computational basis of motivated cognition by combining computational modeling, magnetoencephalography, and behavioral testing. She then applies the insights obtained from this research to design interventions that reduce biased information processing to reduce the spread of misinformation online. 

Laura received a Studentship Award and is the module leader for “Individual Differences” in the Psychology and Language BSc program at UCL.

Contact: laura.globig@gmail.com

Twitter: @laura_k_globig

Publications & Preprints

Globig L.K., Holtz N., & Sharot, T. (in press). Changing the Incentive Structure of Social Media Platforms to Halt the Spread of Misinformation. eLife.

Globig L.K., Gianotti L.R.R., Ponsi, G., Koenig, T., Dahinden, F., & Knoch, D. (2023). The path of dishonesty: identification of mental processes with electrical neuroimaging. Cerebral Cortex. 

Martarelli, C. S., Ovalle-Fresa, R., Popic, D., Globig, L. K., & Rothen, N. (2022). Reinstating location improves mnemonic access but not fidelity of visual mental representations. Cortex, 156, 39-53.

Globig, L. K., Blain, B., & Sharot, T. (2022). Perceptions of personal and public risk: Dissociable effects on behavior and well-being. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1-22.

Charpentier, C.J., Cogliati Dezza, I., Vellani, V., Globig, L.K., Gädeke, M., Sharot, T. (2022) Anxiety selectively increases information-seeking in response to large changes. Scientific Reports.

Globig L.K., Witte K., Feng G. & Sharot, T. (2021) Under threat weaker evidence is required to reach undesirable conclusions. Journal of Neuroscience, 41 (30) 6502-6510. 

Blain, B., Globig L.K., & Sharot, T. (2021) Income shock increases delay discounting independently of emotion. PsyArXiv.

Globig, L. K., Hartmann, M., & Martarelli, C. S. (2019). Vertical head movements influence memory performance for words with emotional content. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 672.

Awards 

2022	Society for Neuroeconomics Best Poster Award
2022	SNSF Travel Grant: 50 Years of Microstates
2022	Fellowship to the Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
2019 – Present	UCL Experimental Psychology Studentship Award